Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1909 — Public Fault-Finding. [ARTICLE]

Public Fault-Finding.

The ability to point out with disagreeable clearness social evils and public perils is not alone enough to entitle justly a man to any great amount of public esteem. Cassandras in breeches or petticoats are of no more real service today than in the heroic age, and the miracle about the lady herself was no so much that the Greeks paid no attention to her forebodings and warnings, but that some impa*tient hero who had wore to do did not wring her dismal neck. There has never been a time when our country has needed to have ideals of service made more fresh and attractiv, or when the real work of the world, done by its sane, healthy and kind-hearted workers, needed greater recognition. It is the good rather than the bad in us which needs encouragement and exposure, and if it once finds work to do, the bad In us will be far less noticeable or troublesome. It is a poor gardener who devotes too much time to the weeds at the expense of the vegetables and flowers. —Atlantic Monthly.